Risky medicine
Subtitle: our quest to cure fear and uncertainty
By: Robert Aronowitz
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780226049717
Subjects: Medical care; Preventive Medicine; Diseases; Social aspects; Risk factors; History
Other titles: R sky Med c ne
Description: "Will ever-more sensitive screening tests for cancer lead to longer, better lives? Will anticipating and trying to prevent the future complications of chronic disease lead to better health? Not always, says Robert Aronowitz. In fact, it often is hurting us... Drawing on such controversial examples as HPV vaccines, cancer screening programs, and the cancer survivorship movement, Aronowitz demonstrates that patients and their doctors have come to believe, perilously, that far too many medical interventions are worthwhile because they promise to control our fears and reduce uncertainty." -- Taken from book flyleaf.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Risky medicine : our quest to cure fear and uncertainty; title: The converged experience of risk and disease; title: The social and psychological efficacy of risk interventions; title: The Framingham heart study and the emergence of the risk factor approach to coronary heart disease : 1947-1970; title: Gardasil : a vaccine against cancer and a drug to reduce risk; title: The rise and fall of the lyme disease vaccines : a cautionary tale for risk interventions in American medicine and public health; title: Cancer survivorship : the entangled experience of risk and disease; title: The global circulation of risk interventions; title: Situating health risks : an opportunity for disease prevention policy; title: Epilogue : the risk system.